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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Immanuel Kant

Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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